My mom gave me their old Dell Mini Inpiron netbook while I was home. It's probably 5+ years old and has XP on it. It is almost not worth keeping. I will probably download some kind of program that Evie can "play" with.

I think going from the 970 to 980ti is diminishing return because of my displays. Both my TV and PC monitors are 1080p. My monitor is only 60hz. My TV is 240hz, but I only get 60fps, I think because of the Steam Link.

I think the 980ti would be great for 4k gaming, but I seem to be getting around the same results. I'm okay with that though, I got a decent upgrade for basically free and will be future proof for when I do get a 4k screen.

I should plug the desktop directly into the TV and test it that way, but that is more work than simply using the Steam Link

I'm tired of BigScreen being buggy for me. I'm going to do a fresh install of everything this week. It's been a few years since I've wiped my PC. My PC is built wrong so I stopped getting Windows updates so it's overdue. I'm going to lose Shadow of War progress, but I doubt I get back to that game anyways.

How large of an OS/SSD does everyone have? Do you put any games on it? I see Oculus now let's you install on multiple drives like Steam does.

I went to buy a 500gb SSD yesterday at Best Buy, but it was out of stock. It's a sign! I don't need it.

I did wipe my 240gb SSD last night and started redoing windows. I ran into tons of issues with the displays, both onboard and GPU. I think I have it figured out tho. If my Rift extension cable is plugged in nothing will display on any monitor. Hopefully a GPU driver update fixes that.

My girlfriend's sister's graphics card is dying (at least, we think its the graphics card). She asked me to help her build a new PC or look for parts so I went to PCPartsPicker, filtering for RX 580, GTX 1060 cards, figuring that would be about right for her needs and budget... and came up completely blank. Apparently the graphics card market has gone completely berserk due to cryptocurrency mining. I'm going to take my GTX 750 Ti out my HTPC (which I haven't been using recently) for her to use until things settle down.

It makes me feel a little less bad about my own GPU dying a while back and the upgrades that prompted, as it seems things could've been a lot worse.

It's to the point where I wonder if this could start having negative implications for PC gaming as a whole if things go on like this much longer. It seems like you can still get a reasonable value by buying prebuilt machines from the likes of HP and I hear that gaming laptops are getting better... but at some point I wonder if the OEMs might start abandoning the PC gaming market in favor of starting their own mining facilities or just selling to miners. It's definitely going to be a barrier to entry to new PC gamers and I could see it causing a fair number of people to jump ship in favor of consoles or other pastimes.